IcculusFinger is a flexible finger daemon. It has a markup
language that allows for formatted text that displays properly over
both a standard finger client and as HTML for the web. It allows
users to break their planfiles up into separately-requested
sections. It allows for extra parameters to be passed with the
finger request. It can archive plans to a MySQL database, so older
revisions ("back issues") can be made available. It is generally more
secure than standard Unix finger servers for several reasons. The
entire system, from the web interface to the daemon itself and the
.plan archiver, are highly configurable for the sysadmin, the .plan
author, and the .plan audience.

IcculusFinger allows you to use a basic markup language in your
.plan files, that is formatted as HTML over the web, and formatted
as plain text for regular finger client requests. Please see
this doc for info on what tags exist.

If you are interested in maintaining packages for various
distributions (.RPM, .DEB, FreeBSD Ports, etc), please
drop me a line.

Downloading from Mercurial:

IcculusFinger's source code may be downloaded using
Mercurial, or "hg".
Hg allows you to get up-to-the-minute fixes and
enhancements; as a developer works on a source tree, you can use hg
to mirror that source tree instead of waiting for an official
release.